[Hybridization of asporogenic strains of Hansenula polymorpha yeasts by protoplast fusion]. / Gibridizatsiia asporogennykh shtammov drozhzhei Hansenula polymorpha putem sliianiia protoplastov.

Intrastrain and interstrain hybrids of different ploidy were produced by the fusion of protoplasts of Hansenula polymorpha haploid and diploid strains. The diploid hybrids were found to be stable in contrast to the triploid and tetraploid hybrids. The instability of the triploid and tetraploid states in Hansenula polymorpha was expressed in the elevated frequency of spontaneous formation of auxotrophic markers and in the decreased content of DNA per cell in the course of storage.

[Comparative study of the protein makeup in diploid and haploid forms of Saccharomyces and Pichia]. / Sravnitel'noe izuchenie sostava belkov u diploidnykh i gaploidnykh form Saccharomyces i Pichia.

The rates of growth, biomass accumulation, and electrophoretic spectra of mobile cytoplasmic proteins were studied with nonisogenous haploid and diploid cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia guilliermondii as well as with isogenous haploid-diploid pairs of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia pinus. On a mineral medium with glucose, differences in these parameters in various yeast strains were found to be due to the genotype of a strain rather than to ploidy: nonisogenous haploid and diploid cultures displayed considerable and random variability of these properties while no differences were found in isogenous haploid-diploid pairs. Studies on solubility of protein fractions in various solvents made it possible to reveal differences connected with ploidy, namely: both in nonisogenous and isogenous haploid-diploid systems, the content of the water-soluble fraction decreased in diploid cultures.